Tairod Pugh

Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh (1968-) was a former US Air Force engineer who joined the Islamic State jihadist group.

Biography
Tairod Pugh was born in Neptune, New Jersey, and from 1986 to 1990 he served in the US Air Force as an avionics engineer before working for companies in the United States and the Middle East as an avionics specialist and airplane mechanic. Pugh, but in December 2014 he was fired from his job in Kuwait. Pugh, who converted to Islam, traveled to Egypt and attempted to fly to Turkey, but he was sent back to Egypt and arrested on 16 January 2016, being sent back to the United States for trial in Brooklyn.